General Features　　

Essential Chart is a powerful data visualization tool that helps you generate professional graphs and charts. It supports a large variety of chart types and sports an object-oriented API that is both powerful and easy to use.

Chart Type　　

More than 35 chart types ranging from simple column charts to complex financial charts are offered in Essential Chart for ASP.NET. All charts except Radar and Polar charts can be rendered in 3-D mode.

Axis Features　　

The default chart control settings include the primary x- and y-axes. The chart control framework also provides complete support for the inclusion of multiple x- and y-axes.

Title Appearance　　

A chart title can be customized to suit the needs of the user. Its font style, size, and color can be modified. The alignment and position of the chart title can also be specified. Essential Chat also supports multiple chart titles.

Alter Series Data and Style　　　

The Chart control comes with a rich style architecture that separates the display styles from the data model and provides flexibility in the appearance and definition of each display element. Style forms the core of the Chart control and provides extensive customization. It can be inherited from a parent chart, which makes complex formatting relatively easy.

Chart Data　　

Essential Chart can handle data in different ways. You can add data points to a series and let the chart manage it. Alternatively, achieve easier data binding to a data set using the built-in ChartDataBindModel control and specify the column names containing the x and y coordinate values.

Chart Appearance　　

A chart's appearance can be customized by setting individual chart element properties. The rich styles architecture available for the Chart control provides formatting options at both point level and series levels.

Chart Legend Appearance 　　

A chart legend, which is a symbol-based caption, is rendered for each series in a chart by default. There is also support for adding custom chart legends. There are also customization options for its appearance. Essential Chart supports multiple chart legends as well.

Interactive Elements　　

User interaction adds to the appeal of any control. Keeping this in mind, the Chart control has been designed to be completely user-friendly and supports several user-interaction elements.